The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - The Courteeners

Wow that voice. Those lyrics. The Courteeners Has He Told You That He Loves You Yet (Aug’14) has a wordy title and quite rightly. It’s a tune that paints an aural masterpiece of being the third wheel to the wrong kind of love. Not just that, it evokes the north of England and the people. Patently something special.

Has He Told You That He Loves You Yet? is a mild, swinging, pop song evocative of The Smiths or even The Housemartins. A song that men everywhere are thanking for making them think more deeply about how their selfish actions affect others. Yeah right. Big hearts in hairy chests are pounding and vaginas gushing listening to this track. No word of a lie, this is one of the best indie songs of 2015.

“The velvet rut looms large
And stands tall
A pelvic strut and then watch
His eyes crawl…”

The Courteeners are an indie rock band from Manchester formed in 2006. Has He Told You That He Loves You Yet ? is the fourth single from their fourth album Concrete Love (Aug’14).

Shit you need to know:

Of the song Has He Told You That He Loves You Yet? The Line Of Best Fit said it “trundles in a sort of faux-psych haze of vocal hums and reverberating tambourine” and is “cringingly sweet”. Another reviewer thought the tune is "custom-made for crowds to sing a long to." 

Concrete Love was produced by Joe Cross who has done the same for Kid Astray and Hurts.

The Courteeners were compared to Bastille and The 1975 by NME in a scathing review (5 out of 10 stars).“Concrete Love is nothing to beat their own drum about.” While another bitchy review (5 out of 10) said The Courteeners have, “a knack for writing catchy radio-friendly indie pop."

The Courteeners main influences are The Smiths, The Kinks and Oasis.

Morrissey is a big fan of The Courteeners, tipping them for breaking the American market. That was in 2008. Yeah don’t think they’re a household name yet Mozzer. 

Bono popped a zipper over  The Courteeeners saying they were the best band in ten years. And if that's not enough they were big upped by Stone Roses guitarist John Squire.

The band have described themselves as the, “…biggest underground band in the world”.


Check out Next Time You Call, How Good It Was and Are You In Love With A Notion for more great Courteeners. But especially Next Time You Call.

It's a real double up today as we've got another Courteener's tune but it's them doing a cover of The Smith's There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. So yeah, fucking awesome. Natch.

“Take me out tonight,

Where there’s music and there’s people,

Who are young and alive”